About us

Vitestro is active in pioneering the future of blood collection with the Aletta® Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device™ (ARPD™). Founded in 2017 in Utrecht, the company is transforming one of the most common medical procedures by addressing healthcare staffing shortages and improving patient experience. With a rapidly growing team of over 130 members, Vitestro is committed to continuous innovation and improvement.

Job description

As a systems engineer, you own a set of the device's key functions across their full product lifecycle, managing these functions end-to-end and translating feature requests and system-level requirements into function and sub-system requirements. You will be central to maturing designs for manufacturability, reliability, and cost, while leading multi-disciplinary design work and coaching discipline engineers through technical excellence.

• Lead multidisciplinary design projects across your functions — coordinating and delegating work among mechanical, electrical, software, and industrialization disciplines to ensure effective, efficient design outputs that meet stakeholder requirements
• Steer, coach and technically manage discipline engineers (e.g., mechanical and/or software), setting high standards for quality and best practices and helping colleagues grow.
• Translate system-level requirements and feature requests into function and sub-system requirement breakdowns, establish acceptance criteria, and co-work with fellow systems engineers to detail the interfaces between functions
• Take your functions through design, integration, verification and design transfer to production — designing for manufacturability across sheet metal and weldments, formed and molded plastics, machining, and additive (SLS/FDM), and selecting the right process for each part
• Design and integrate electromechanical, fluidic/pneumatic and sensing content — pumps, valves, manifolds, tubing and sealing, stepper actuation, optical/capacitive sensing, and cable harnesses — with attention to serviceability, reliability and manufacturability
• Define and lead (and where needed co-execute) verifications and validations at function and system level
• Contribute to the refinement of our design and supplier management processes — including reviewing the supplier and parts quality control plan — and work together with our suppliers to implement design and/or process improvements, including cost-down and design-for-assembly optimization across a largely bought-in set of functions
• Monitor function performance across the lifecycle using field data, guard requirements and standards compliance, and troubleshoot issues at both function and system level

Relevant work experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics or a similar background
• >5 years working experience in design & development of mechatronic devices
• Experience with industrialization / design-for-manufacturing of actuated (dynamic, moving) systems, and hands-on design experience across manufacturing techniques such as sheet metal, formed/molded plastics and machined part
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary design projects and steering or coaching discipline engineers to deliver design outputs that meet stakeholder requirements

Benefits

• Competitive salary including pension plan
• 25 days of annual leave based on a full-time position
• Hybrid work model
• Working together in a high-skilled team with our home base in Utrecht
• Frequent out-of-work activities with our team, and annual company weekend away
• Training budget
• Opportunity to be key shaper of a new global industry niche: autonomous medical robotics

Skills required for the job